How PragerU Infiltrated Public Schools

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  @zoe_bee · 2 years ago · pinned

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• EM

  @Emily55555-e · 2 years ago

  As a teacher I can say: I&apos;m so overworked and strung out during the school year that there&apos;s no way in hell I would&apos;ve reviewed the PragerU curriculum and given feedback in four days. I mean, we already do so much unpaid labor just as part of the job as it is. They knew this and they counted on it.

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• SK

  @Skyguy1225 · 2 years ago

  Two people is not a committee. Two people is a lunch date.

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• FL

  @FluffyBeowolf-yw5ce · 2 years ago

  I hate how this was used to be like &quot;pragerU is trying to get its way into schools&quot; and now it&apos;s &quot;how pragerU is in schools&quot;

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• IM

  @immaterial_vivi · 2 years ago

  Cash Course? Do they just try to prey on dyslexic people looking for Crash Course videos?

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• FE

  @FeministCatLadySpinster · 2 years ago

  Huh. Last I knew, PragerU was pretty open about the fact that they actually aren&apos;t an educational facility. I guess they&apos;ve changed their mind.

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• RO

  @robsquared2 · 2 years ago

  I was in my 30s before I understood the purpose of school wasn&apos;t to have an informed populace, it was to have a complaint workforce.

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• BS

  @bsnow304 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m so glad our state governments are handing the keys of our schools to think tanks disguised as educators. Surely this will have no repercussions for how future generations will navigate the increasingly interconnected world.

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• MS

  @MsZeitgeist85 · 2 years ago

  PragerU is for education what lead pipes are for drinking water.

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• QB

  @QBG · 2 years ago (edited)

  &quot;Ethical self-interest&quot; is like when a parent puts on the oxygen mask first to make sure they&apos;re able to help the kids. It&apos;s <i>not</i> &quot;exploiting others for my own personal profit is good, actually!&quot;. PragerU is fucking awful.

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• HA

  @Hailfire08 · 2 years ago

  &quot;Freedom week&quot; where teachers are only allowed to show students state-approved materials.<br><br>These idiots couldn&apos;t make something funnier if they tried. The US is so fucked.

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• CO

  @CodeNameX001 · 2 years ago

  Way back in Junior High, I was taking one of many low-level math courses. I have a learning disability and as a result math was always difficult and stressful for me, especially when I had to &quot;show my work&quot;. When I could barely understand polynomials, how am I meant to describe my thought processes.<br><br>It&apos;s hard to remember the specifics (this was almost 20 years ago), but &nbsp;I was working on a problem in class and came to a realization, figuring out a way to calculate the solution that was MUCH easier for me. And despite finding the solution, these problems were still being marked wrong on tests.<br><br>I showed the teacher how I did it and why, and she told me that it was wrong. When I asked why, she answered, &quot;Because that&apos;s not the way we do it&quot; and refused to expound further.<br><br>If the original way had a specific application and couldn&apos;t be changed, I would have understood. But if it did, she never told me. Those weren&apos;t guardrails she was putting up, it was fencing.<br><br>I think that was the first moment I came to understand that the American school system wasn&apos;t designed for learning.

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